Got up at 7, chinese class. After class met with Prof. Wang for a checkin on my research. We had a good conversation, and she gave me contact information for a couple people that sound really interesting. One, her sister, who works in the government’s intellectual property bureau and secondly a professor in the media… Continue reading October 29 – More Class

got up at 7. Feeling like I’ve got another cold coming on, but I suppose thats to be expected. spent the morning studying chinese, doing math. Didn’t get quite as much done as I wanted to. Did get my laundry done. Had class, it was fine. After class, spent the evening studying tomorrow’s chinese. Got… Continue reading October 28 – Still no break

Got up at 7, packed my bag and left it at the hostile front desk top pick up. Walked south, out through the south city gate and continued down. Walked to the pagoda that we’d seen signs for yesterday, but it wasn’t open for tourism yet, and the guard told me to come back later,… Continue reading October 27 – Return to beijing

Woke up at 6:30. Got dressed, packed, and waited outside the rooms until 7 for our morning gathering. We went north a block into the muslim district again for breakfast, this time I pointed to a paomo place and asked if I could eat there. About half the group ended up eating there. This is… Continue reading October 26 – Tourism

Got up at 6:30 on the train. We were stopped at a station, it was not the xian station. At about 7:30 we got to xian after a couple more starts and stops. took taxis from the train station a few blocks to our hostel. Dropped our bags, and went to find some breakfast. We… Continue reading October 25 – In XiAn

Woke up at 9ish. Reviewed the article that I was talking about, packed, and then went to class. Class was cool, we talked for the first hour on newspaper articles Me and Sergio had picked out. Mine was on windows black-screen initiative. Microsoft has started a newer enforcement of pirated windows where the bad copies… Continue reading October 24 – To XiAn

Got up at 7am. Took the midterm. It went fine, I can write well now, although my reading comprehension isn’t as good. A reversal from where I’ve been before, which is cool. It gives me something different to focus on, especially since I feel like I’ve got the memorization thing down pretty well at this… Continue reading October 23 – Finale

Got up at 7, fairly tired out. Went to class, did fine on the dictations and homework and such-forth. We went over on time a little bit, so that we’re all squared away before the exam. Spent the rest of the morning finishing the math and beginning to review everything. Did math tutoring for a… Continue reading October 22 – Mid Week Push

got up at about 8:30-ish. Did a round of studying through the Chinese. Got through the reading for math, and began working through the problem set. Went out to the store to get a quick lunch. Came back, did another round of chinese, wrote out the set for tomorrow, since class wasn’t until the afternoon.… Continue reading October 21 – Studying

Got up at 6:30, finished up my homework from last night. Probably made the right decision in going to bed early, since I had a headache and wasn’t being productive. Went to class, sergio was less prepared than me, but neither of us did that well on recall of the words. Prof. wang was pretty… Continue reading October 20 – back in the fray